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Samit Basu · 4W ago

Katju power!

Was on Barkha Dutts’s NDTV debate on public life vs private life and social media (pegged on the Abhishek Manu Singhvi sex tape) a couple of days ago. Here’s the video, starring India’s real-life Judge Dredd, Justice Katju.   Filed under: just
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Samit Basu · 2M ago

Local Monsters

…is a comicbook I’m working on with Level Ten comics and Tranquebar. Level Ten just posted a teaser image on Facebook, so I thought I’d share it here as well. It isn’t a cover, just an announcement. When more stuff happens, you’ll be the first to know. Filed under: just
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Samit Basu · 2M ago

Happy Holi!

I lied. Holi is not a happy day, it’s a day for carnage and general mayhem. Announcing the UnHoli Covered in Colour contest! Win free comics! Post the most colorful picture of yourself covered in Holi colours looking the most zombie like, get your friends to like them and the person with the most li
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Samit Basu · 4M ago

JLF 2012

Just back from Jaipur. So much happened, so many stories to tell, but already deadlines loom and so I’ll just run away after posting some links, as usual. Here’s a piece I did for the BBC on five highlights of the Jaipur festival. Here’s the text: THE RUSHDIE CONTROVERSY If there was one unifying th
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Samit Basu · 4M ago

Unholi

Unholi is a zombie comic set in Delhi. I think that’s pretty much all I need to say about it. Oh, wait, it’s more comedy than horror. Also, there is carnage set at a publishing party. Here are the first few episodes: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 And here’s an interview about [...]
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Samit Basu · 6M ago

George RR Martin

Here‘s a GRRM piece I wrote for the Sunday Guardian.   Filed under: just
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Samit Basu · 7M ago

Going, Going, G.One: The Big Fat Ra.One Post

This came out on Rediff.com yesterday, here. Posting it on this site as well in case the slideshow format there doesn’t agree with you.   I spent a lot of time this year wandering the wilderness of Bollywood trying to put together a film adaptation of my last novel, Turbulence, a superhero novel set
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Samit Basu · 7M ago

Putu returns, and other heroic nonsense

Putu is a Hero now   Putu is a Hero now. Stop him if you can but how? Putu wearing underwear Wiggling like he just don’t care. Putu stopping every villain Only bruisin, never killin, Putu shooting beam from eye, Like a lightning in the sky. Putu having honour code, Always paying what is owed, [...]
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Samit Basu · 1Y ago

Untouchable: Downloadable

For iPads/iPhones for $2.99 here. Written by Mike Carey and me, art by Ashok Bhadana, published by Liquid Comics. Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma is here. And if you run a search for Devi, they’re all up as well (I wrote issues 3-10) Filed under: just
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Samit Basu · 1Y ago

Turbulence: Events and updates

Further updates and links here:   Update – The book tour is done, and after travelling from Calcutta to Jaipur to Kochi to Bangalore to Bombay for round 2, I”m fairly glad it’s over. Much fun was had, and there are a few updates, and this is a big one: Mumbai Mirror on Turbulence going [...]
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